SFEN – New Nuclear to Help the National Economy The French Nuclear Energy Society SFEN underlined in its last position paper the opportunity offered by new investments in the nuclear sector to stimulate the national economy. SFEN stressed a stronger commitment by the government to build a series of new EPR nuclear power reactors in…
IAEA Pre-OSART Report on Flamanville-3 Is Now Available The French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire – ASN) has made public online the IAEA report of the pre-OSART (pre-Operational Safety Review Team) mission, which took place from 4-17 July 2019 at the Flamanville-3 nuclear power plant, under construction in Normandy. The main purpose of…
The French Recovery Plan Includes Funds For Framatome Nuclear Projects Framatome nuclear projects were selected to receive funding as part of the “France Relance” recovery plan, several French ministers announced last week. The Framatome projects selected are focused on investing in new activities and modernizing the nuclear energy industry. Funding from the France Relance plan…
Framatome’s New E&T Project To Be Supported By France Relance Education, training and skills development are more and more important in a fast-changing world. That’s why Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) invests nearly 200 million euros every year in its industrial facilities and promotes a dynamic policy for skills development and training by recruiting nearly 1,000 new…
Tractebel To Support France’s NUWARD SMR Project Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) will provide engineering services to deliver NUWARD ™, a small modular reactor technology. The construction of the reference plant is expected to start in 2030 and its deployment will contribute to meeting growing European demand for carbon-neutral, safe, and affordable electricity. Tractebel’s experts will…
EDF Life Cycle Analysis: Nuclear Is A Very Low Carbon Source Of Energy The recently published EDF Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) “Producing 1 kWh from the French nuclear” confirms the very low carbon nature of nuclear energy. According to the study, each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity produced by EDF’s reactor fleet in France emits the…
Framatome Awarded SFEN Prize For Technological Innovation The CRIL, the Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) CERCA Research and Innovation Laboratory received the SFEN Prize for Technological Innovation for the world’s first uranium-molybdenum and uranium-silicon objects using 3D printing technology. This innovation enables the development and production of uranium metal fuel plates for research reactors and irradiation…
Westinghouse And EDF To Cooperate On EnCore® ATF Technology Westinghouse Electric Company announced a partnership with EDF (both ENS Corporate Members) to explore the functionalities of Westinghouse’s EnCore® enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) technology. Westinghouse will study its EnCore fuel in an EDF reactor for potential deployment across the EDF nuclear fleet after 2030. This…
Framatome Announces New Investment Supporting Nuclear Medicine Framatome (ENS Corporate Member) announced that it acquired a minority stake in the French startup Global Morpho Pharma. With this investment, Framatome strengthens its activities serving nuclear medicine development and expands its support for the supply chain of Lutetium-177 and other promising isotopes for therapeutic applications. Global Morpho…
Steps Forward For The French Deep Geological Disposal Facility Last week, Andra (the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management) applied to France’s Ministry of Energy Transition for authorization to create the planned Cigéo (Centre Industriel de Stockage Géologique). This is a key step for the project, which marks the beginning of a new phase,…